This volume is published in honour of Lucy Freeman Sandler, Helen Gould Sheppard Professor of Art History, Emerita at New York University, whose contribution to the study of illuminated manuscripts, and to English Gothic book illumination in particular has been outstanding. The articles offered here are all in deep appreciation for her friendship, her teaching, and her collegiality, and the thematic range and methodological variety of the essays truly reflect the breadth and depth of her intellectual interests.

Jane E. Rosenthal, An Unprecedented Image of Love and Devotion: The Crucifixion In Judith of Flanders' Gospel Book – Walter Cahn, The Pictorial Epitaph of Lambert of Saint-Bertin – Gerald B. Guest, Structuring Old Testament History in the Psalter of Louis IX – William M. Voelkle, More Medieval Alphabet Soup: Another Unique Catherine Initial From the Mosan Psalter-Hours – Alison Stones, A Note on the North French Manuscripts of Brunetto Latini’s Trésor – Nigel Morgan, The Bohun Apocalypse – Susan L’Engle, The Naked Bishop: Baring the Body to Express the Law – Nancy Freeman Regalado, Fortune’s Two Crowns: Images of Kingship in Paris, BnF MS fr. 146 Roman de Fauvel – Madeline H. Caviness; Marginally Correct – Elizabeth Sears, Scribal Wit in a Manuscript from the Châtelet: Images in the Margins of Boileau’s Livre des métiers (Paris, BnF MS fr. 24069) – M. A. Michael, Planning for Style: A Preliminary Reading of the De Lisle Psalter Virgin and Child – Richard K. Emmerson, Visualizing the Vernacular: Middle English Early Fourteenth Century Bilingual and Trilingual Manuscript Illustrations – Margot M. Nishimura and David Nishimura, Rabbits, Warrens, and Warenne: The Patronage of the Gorleston Psalter – Lilian M. C. Randall, Sense and Sensibilities in an Early Fourteenth-Century Psalter from East Anglia – Adelaide Bennett, Leaves of a Fourteenth-Century Franco-Flemish Antiphonary Owned by John Ruskin (1819-1900) – Margaret M. Manion, Imaging the Marvelous and Fostering Marian Devotion: The Miracles de Notre Dame and French Royalty – C. M. Kauffmann, An Illustrated Life of Christ in Verse – Claire Richter Sherman, Representations of Maternal and Familial Roles in French Translations of the Pseudo-Aristotelian Economics, Book I – Kathleen L. Scott, The Remains of a Missal: Chetham's Library MS 6713 – Roger S. Wieck, Trial by Fleur: The Earliest Work by the Master of Walters 219 – Janet Backhouse (†), Patronage and Commemoration in the Beaufort Hours – Jenny Stratford and Catherine Reynolds, The Foyle Breviary and Hours of John, Duke of Bedford, in the British Library – Erik Inglis, The Production and Program of Fouquet's Boccaccio – Jonathan J. G. Alexander, Mansueta Asinella: An Unusual Image of a Book Presentation to Marguerite de France, Duchesse de Savoie (1523-74) – Ruth Mellinkoff, Two Erotic Women Warriors: Sexy, Violent, and LethalIndexes and other apparatus

Review

"The fact that Lucy Freeman Sandler, and others like her, have inspired so much sustained investigation is both a tribute to her and yet another reminder of the urgent need for further catalogues of the great collections in the UK and abroad." (D. McKitterick in: Times Literary Supplement, 23 January 2009, p. 29)

"Many other provocative and valuable offerings to the study of manuscript illumination are found in this volume. The thematic and methodological variety of the essays is worthy testimony to Sandler’s rich and wide-ranging scholarship. Certainly the variety of subjects and general excellence of the contributions will insure the book’s regular consultation in the future. In short, this is a handsome and admirable tribute to an eminent scholar."